Lab Notes: How breastfeeding can protect against cancer - The Science Show - Full Program Podcast
Description
Thanks in part to 18th-century nuns, we now know that having children and breastfeeding reduces a mum's risk of developing breast cancer for years, even until her kid is well into primary school.
Now Australian scientists have discovered how breastfeeding specifically enlists the immune system to protect against an aggressive and hard-to-treat type of breast cancer.
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Featuring:
- Sherene Loi, medical oncologist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Extra information:
Parity and lactation induce T cell mediated breast cancer protection
This episode of Lab Notes was produced on the lands of the Wurundjeri and Menang Noongar people.
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